but why does this always happen to me, i get hooked into an AWESOME comic, read years worth of it in a night and then find out its still coming out at a slow rate (remembering i just read the previous 1126 pages in a night)

Don’t worry too much about the update schedule. Scott is rather fanatic about getting a 5 day a week schedule going for this comic, and times that it slows down are extremely rare. And since the only reason this comic is getting slowed down at all is because of a movie version of the comic, I think it’s safe to say he’s not planning on forgetting about the comic at all. 😛

Trust me, I’ve seen comics that get abandoned for 6 months at a time, and even one comic that had “M-W-F Updates” on their site, blatently ignored it and got annoyed when people expected him to follow the schedule he put up.

Even at the slowed down turnout in the last week or so, this comic still beats the stuffing out of a lot of other comic’s update schedules.

The Wraiths seem to have the ability to move between worlds, although until now we see that they are able to project themselves as “ghosts” into our world.
Maybe they wait to see what happens after the completion of the ritual.

Erm… I think the first panel here and the last panel on page 1126 are exactly the same… unless my screen just can’t show the nightmare creatures being more corporeal than before. Either way, the centaur is saying the same thing in both panels…

He has been saying the same thing the whole time even when he is out of frame. Poor guy doesn’t get original chants like Merlin. There are some small differences but they are hard to see even with the images next to each other. His left hand lowered out of frame and he developed a glow today. Also the wraith on the right shifted his head slightly. There isn’t much action to illustrate in the panel while they wait for the ritual to finish. Still panning left to center the wraiths might help differentiate the images.